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IT WAS a bizarre finish to the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Gold Tour final at Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club, near Southampton.
Convinced the fourth frame was already won, Daniel Woods casually slapped in a tricky match-ball black to beat Stuart Scott (Romford SC) 3-1.
But the 21-year-old university student’s maths were a tad out.
Playing on home tables, last season’s rankings winner trailed by 42 points with seven reds left. He reduced the deficit to eight points with the last four colours left.
Presented with a chance, Woods cleared brown, blue and pink to lead by seven. And he nonchalantly stroked the black into the middle pocket.
“Thinking I’d won, I just hit the black down as if it didn’t really matter when I needed it to win,” explained Woods.
“I probably would’ve missed it if I actually thought it meant anything. So it was quite lucky.”
A miss would have presented Scott with a chance of forcing a re-spotted black.
Woods accounted for rankings leader Ben Tanner (The Academy, Eastleigh) 3-1 in the last-four. Scott edged Tanner’s clubmate Lee Bell 3-2 in the second semi.
Second-placed Danny Tallentire (Player’s, Westbury) was denied a knockout place after losing 3-2 to Oliver Parsons (Jesters, Swindon) in the group stages.
Woods added it would be “quite good” to compete on the pro-standard tables at the South West Snooker Academy, Gloucester, in the sixth of the eight legs on Sunday, March 4.
GOLD RESULTS
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP A: 1st, Daniel Woods (Chandler’s Ford SC); 2nd, Stuart Scott (Romford SC); 3rd, Liam Burnet (The Academy, Eastleigh); 4th, Lee Roling (The Academy, Eastleigh).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP B: 1st, Lee Bell (The Academy, Eastleigh); 2nd, Ben Tanner (The Academy, Eastleigh); 3rd, Danny Tallentire (Player’s, Westbury); 4th, Oliver Parsons (Jesters, Swindon).
SEMI-FINALS (12 points): Woods beat Tanner 3-1, Scott beat Bell 3-2.
FINAL (25/18 points): Woods beat Scott 3-1.
THE second highest turnout in the three-year history of the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Gold, Silver and Bronze Tours descended on Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club, near Southampton.
Remarkably, 49 players turned up for the fifth leg. And the 28 entries in the Bronze event was a new record.
Unflappable tournament director Roy Danyluk coped well and maintained a smile throughout a long day which ended at 9.20pm.
BRISTOL teenager Thomas Lancastle punched the air in delight after clinching a first ever Cuestars tournament win.
The 15-year-old with the Rolls-Royce cue-action edged Joshua Lee 2-1 in the final of the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Silver Tour fifth leg at Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club, near Southampton.
With 18 points on in the decider, Lancastle admitted he fluked a snooker from a snookered position - but the shot was always on.
Lee (Jesters, Swindon) failed to connect and his opponent slotted in blue and pink.
The match ended at 9.20pm, a near 11-hour day for the finalists.
Lancastle, who is based at Eastville SC and has spent nearly two years working with Ronnie O’Sullivan’s coach Frank Adamson, remains third in the rankings behind second-placed Lee.
Runaway rankings leader Troy Bodman (Jesters, Swindon) had lost only two of his 24 matches in the four previous tournaments. At Chandler’s Ford, he won one out of three.
Bodman was beaten in the group stages 2-1 by Paul Ives (Liberal Club, High Wycombe) and was knocked out in the quarter-finals 2-0 by Lancastle.
Lancastle made his Silver Tour debut at Salisbury on October 17, 2010. He has now played in 11 events and been runner-up twice.
He dropped just one frame out of seven to qualify for the knockout top of Group A. And he saw off Group C runner-up Sam Storey (Thatcham SC) 2-0 in the last-four.
Earlier, Storey, 16, had recorded his first ever Silver Tour knockout victory, beating Group B winner Mark Lloyd (Stoke SC, Gosport) 2-1 on the final black.
In the other quarter-final matches, Lee saw off Group B runner-up Cameron Holt (Liberal Club, High Wycombe) 2-1 and Ives accounted for Group A runner-up Daniel Knox (Woking SC). Lee ended Ives’ run with a 2-1 victory in the semi-finals.
The sixth of the eight legs is at the South West Snooker Academy, Gloucester, on Sunday, March 4.
BREAKS
Thomas Lancastle: 34, 31.
SILVER RESULTS
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP A: 1st, Thomas Lancastle (Eastville SC, Bristol); 2nd, Daniel Knox (Woking SC); 3rd, Connor McLean (Hailsham Memorial Institute, East Sussex); 4th, Joshua Brooker (Liberal Club, High Wycombe).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP B: 1st, Mark Lloyd (Stoke SC, Gosport); 2nd, Cameron Holt (Liberal Club, High Wycombe); 3rd, Robert Henley (The Academy, Eastleigh).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP C: 1st, Joshua Lee (Jesters, Swindon); 2nd, Sam Storey (Thatcham SC); 3rd, Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP D: 1st, Paul Ives (Liberal Club, High Wycombe); 2nd, Troy Bodman (Jesters, Swindon); 3rd, Anthony Church (Greenbaize, Bournemouth).
QUARTER-FINALS (8 points): Lancastle beat Bodman 2-0, Storey beat Lloyd 2-1, Lee beat Holt 2-1, Ives beat Knox 2-1.
SEMI-FINALS (12 points): Lancastle beat Storey 2-0, Lee beat Ives 2-1.
FINAL (25/18 points): Lancastle beat Lee 2-1.
EVENT-one winner Stewart Ball secured his second Cuestars South of England Under-21 Bronze Tour winner’s trophy at Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club, near Southampton.
In a repeat of the first-leg final in Salisbury last October, the 16-year-old from the Greenbaize Snooker Club, Bournemouth, saw off his nine-year-old clubmate Bradley Cowdroy.
Ball admitted that a “crucial” fluke halted his young opponent’s charge towards the end of the frame.
Cowdroy had clawed back the deficit to just 12 points and left Ball snookered on the final red.
But the teenager fluked a pot AND landed perfectly on the black.
Ball climbed to second place behind Matthew Bellinger (Jesters, Swindon), who finished fourth in the group of death that provided both left-handed finalists.
Just two qualifiers from each round-robin group of seven meant heartbreak for some as organisers battled to fit in the final games.
Liam Day, making his Cuestars debut on his home tables, remarkably won all six matches. The 14-year-old’s sensational run eventually ended in quarter-final defeat by Cowdroy.
And Cowdroy’s victory over Olly Clark, 12, also from Chandler’s Ford SC, meant that although the pair finished on level points, Clark missed out on a quarter-final spot.
Woking’s Jasmine Bolsover, 12, was beaten in the quarter-finals for the fourth time this season, thanks to a 22 clearance by Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC) who went out to Cowdroy in the last-four.
And a fifth semi-final place this season for Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC) was denied by Karl Eggar (Stoke SC, Gosport), who clinically cleared the last three colours after his opponent missed four attempts at the match-ball blue.
Ball, who knocked out Spike Hull (Chandler’s Ford SC) in the quarter-finals, ended Eggar’s hopes of a first final
The sixth of the eight legs is at the South West Snooker Academy, Gloucester, on Sunday, March 4.
BREAKS
Olly Clark: 30.
Bradley Cowdroy: 22.
Mike Trigg: 22.
BRONZE RESULTS
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP A: 1st, Jasmine Bolsover (Woking SC); 2nd, Karl Eggar (Stoke SC, Gosport); 3rd, Ashley Smith (Copnor SC, Portsmouth); joint 4th, Luke Day (Chandler’s Ford SC), Arnie Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Rio Smith (Copnor SC, Portsmouth); 7th, Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP B: 1st, Liam Day (Chandler’s Ford SC); 2nd, Spike Hull (Chandler’s Ford SC); 3rd, Keiran Murray (Chandler’s Ford SC); 4th, Matthew Boudier (Stoke SC, Gosport); 5th, Bradley Redmond (Chandler’s Ford SC); 6th, Corey Tallentire (Player’s, Westbury); 7th, Callum McDonald (Salisbury SC).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP C: 1st, Stewart Ball (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 2nd, Bradley Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 3rd, Olly Clark (Chandler’s Ford SC); 4th, Matthew Bellinger (Jesters, Swindon); joint 5th, Bradley Lane (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Mitchell Snook (Chandler’s Ford SC); 7th, Jamie Wilson (Copnor SC, Portsmouth).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP D: 1st, Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC); 2nd, Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC); 3rd, Thomas Holton (Woking SC); joint 4th, Joseph Richardson (Crucible, Newbury), Daniel Compton (Copnor SC, Portsmouth); 6th, Kaine Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 7th, Bradley Wrench (Copnor SC, Portsmouth).
QUARTER-FINALS (8 points): Trigg beat Bolsover 1-0, Cowdroy beat Liam Day 1-0, Ball beat Hull 1-0, Eggar beat Austen Petty 1-0.
SEMI-FINALS (12 points): Cowdroy beat Trigg 1-0, Ball beat Eggar 1-0.
FINAL (25/18 points): Ball beat Cowdroy 1-0.
IT MAY take a while for the beaming smile to be wiped off Kaine Petty’s face.
The 13-year-old from the Greenbaize Snooker Club, Bournemouth, picked up his first Cuestars silverware. And it was a winner’s trophy.
Petty defeated Cuestars debutant Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC) on the black in the final of the Plate, a competition for those not qualifying for the main knockouts.
He had also seen off Sykes’ clubmate Olly Clark on the black in the semi-finals after fluking the pink, which denied Clark his first Cuestars trophy.
PLATE RESULTS (ONE-FRAME MATCHES)
LAST-16: Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Joshua Brooker (Liberal Club High Wycombe), Matthew Boudier (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Luke Day (Chandler’s Ford SC), Bradley Lane (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Bradley Redmond (Chandler’s Ford SC), Ashley Smith (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Anthony Church (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Liam Burnet (The Academy, Eastleigh) beat Daniel Compton (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Olly Clark (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Bradley Wrench (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Keiran Murray (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Arnie Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth).
QUARTER-FINALS: Sykes beat Boudier, Lane beat Smith, Clark beat Burnet, Kaine Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Murray.
SEMI-FINALS: Sykes beat Lane, Kaine Petty beat Clark.
FINAL: Kaine Petty beat Sykes.
Tim Dunkley (World Snooker coach)
Convinced the fourth frame was already won, Daniel Woods casually slapped in a tricky match-ball black to beat Stuart Scott (Romford SC) 3-1.
But the 21-year-old university student’s maths were a tad out.
Playing on home tables, last season’s rankings winner trailed by 42 points with seven reds left. He reduced the deficit to eight points with the last four colours left.
Presented with a chance, Woods cleared brown, blue and pink to lead by seven. And he nonchalantly stroked the black into the middle pocket.
“Thinking I’d won, I just hit the black down as if it didn’t really matter when I needed it to win,” explained Woods.
“I probably would’ve missed it if I actually thought it meant anything. So it was quite lucky.”
A miss would have presented Scott with a chance of forcing a re-spotted black.
Woods accounted for rankings leader Ben Tanner (The Academy, Eastleigh) 3-1 in the last-four. Scott edged Tanner’s clubmate Lee Bell 3-2 in the second semi.
Second-placed Danny Tallentire (Player’s, Westbury) was denied a knockout place after losing 3-2 to Oliver Parsons (Jesters, Swindon) in the group stages.
Woods added it would be “quite good” to compete on the pro-standard tables at the South West Snooker Academy, Gloucester, in the sixth of the eight legs on Sunday, March 4.
GOLD RESULTS
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP A: 1st, Daniel Woods (Chandler’s Ford SC); 2nd, Stuart Scott (Romford SC); 3rd, Liam Burnet (The Academy, Eastleigh); 4th, Lee Roling (The Academy, Eastleigh).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP B: 1st, Lee Bell (The Academy, Eastleigh); 2nd, Ben Tanner (The Academy, Eastleigh); 3rd, Danny Tallentire (Player’s, Westbury); 4th, Oliver Parsons (Jesters, Swindon).
SEMI-FINALS (12 points): Woods beat Tanner 3-1, Scott beat Bell 3-2.
FINAL (25/18 points): Woods beat Scott 3-1.
Near record turnout
THE second highest turnout in the three-year history of the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Gold, Silver and Bronze Tours descended on Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club, near Southampton.
Remarkably, 49 players turned up for the fifth leg. And the 28 entries in the Bronze event was a new record.
Unflappable tournament director Roy Danyluk coped well and maintained a smile throughout a long day which ended at 9.20pm.
Rolls-Royce cue-action steers Lancastle to first Cuestars title
BRISTOL teenager Thomas Lancastle punched the air in delight after clinching a first ever Cuestars tournament win.
The 15-year-old with the Rolls-Royce cue-action edged Joshua Lee 2-1 in the final of the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Silver Tour fifth leg at Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club, near Southampton.
With 18 points on in the decider, Lancastle admitted he fluked a snooker from a snookered position - but the shot was always on.
Lee (Jesters, Swindon) failed to connect and his opponent slotted in blue and pink.
The match ended at 9.20pm, a near 11-hour day for the finalists.
Lancastle, who is based at Eastville SC and has spent nearly two years working with Ronnie O’Sullivan’s coach Frank Adamson, remains third in the rankings behind second-placed Lee.
Runaway rankings leader Troy Bodman (Jesters, Swindon) had lost only two of his 24 matches in the four previous tournaments. At Chandler’s Ford, he won one out of three.
Bodman was beaten in the group stages 2-1 by Paul Ives (Liberal Club, High Wycombe) and was knocked out in the quarter-finals 2-0 by Lancastle.
Lancastle made his Silver Tour debut at Salisbury on October 17, 2010. He has now played in 11 events and been runner-up twice.
He dropped just one frame out of seven to qualify for the knockout top of Group A. And he saw off Group C runner-up Sam Storey (Thatcham SC) 2-0 in the last-four.
Earlier, Storey, 16, had recorded his first ever Silver Tour knockout victory, beating Group B winner Mark Lloyd (Stoke SC, Gosport) 2-1 on the final black.
In the other quarter-final matches, Lee saw off Group B runner-up Cameron Holt (Liberal Club, High Wycombe) 2-1 and Ives accounted for Group A runner-up Daniel Knox (Woking SC). Lee ended Ives’ run with a 2-1 victory in the semi-finals.
The sixth of the eight legs is at the South West Snooker Academy, Gloucester, on Sunday, March 4.
BREAKS
Thomas Lancastle: 34, 31.
SILVER RESULTS
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP A: 1st, Thomas Lancastle (Eastville SC, Bristol); 2nd, Daniel Knox (Woking SC); 3rd, Connor McLean (Hailsham Memorial Institute, East Sussex); 4th, Joshua Brooker (Liberal Club, High Wycombe).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP B: 1st, Mark Lloyd (Stoke SC, Gosport); 2nd, Cameron Holt (Liberal Club, High Wycombe); 3rd, Robert Henley (The Academy, Eastleigh).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP C: 1st, Joshua Lee (Jesters, Swindon); 2nd, Sam Storey (Thatcham SC); 3rd, Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP D: 1st, Paul Ives (Liberal Club, High Wycombe); 2nd, Troy Bodman (Jesters, Swindon); 3rd, Anthony Church (Greenbaize, Bournemouth).
QUARTER-FINALS (8 points): Lancastle beat Bodman 2-0, Storey beat Lloyd 2-1, Lee beat Holt 2-1, Ives beat Knox 2-1.
SEMI-FINALS (12 points): Lancastle beat Storey 2-0, Lee beat Ives 2-1.
FINAL (25/18 points): Lancastle beat Lee 2-1.
“Crucial” fluke hands Ball second title
EVENT-one winner Stewart Ball secured his second Cuestars South of England Under-21 Bronze Tour winner’s trophy at Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club, near Southampton.
In a repeat of the first-leg final in Salisbury last October, the 16-year-old from the Greenbaize Snooker Club, Bournemouth, saw off his nine-year-old clubmate Bradley Cowdroy.
Ball admitted that a “crucial” fluke halted his young opponent’s charge towards the end of the frame.
Cowdroy had clawed back the deficit to just 12 points and left Ball snookered on the final red.
But the teenager fluked a pot AND landed perfectly on the black.
Ball climbed to second place behind Matthew Bellinger (Jesters, Swindon), who finished fourth in the group of death that provided both left-handed finalists.
Just two qualifiers from each round-robin group of seven meant heartbreak for some as organisers battled to fit in the final games.
Liam Day, making his Cuestars debut on his home tables, remarkably won all six matches. The 14-year-old’s sensational run eventually ended in quarter-final defeat by Cowdroy.
And Cowdroy’s victory over Olly Clark, 12, also from Chandler’s Ford SC, meant that although the pair finished on level points, Clark missed out on a quarter-final spot.
Woking’s Jasmine Bolsover, 12, was beaten in the quarter-finals for the fourth time this season, thanks to a 22 clearance by Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC) who went out to Cowdroy in the last-four.
And a fifth semi-final place this season for Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC) was denied by Karl Eggar (Stoke SC, Gosport), who clinically cleared the last three colours after his opponent missed four attempts at the match-ball blue.
Ball, who knocked out Spike Hull (Chandler’s Ford SC) in the quarter-finals, ended Eggar’s hopes of a first final
The sixth of the eight legs is at the South West Snooker Academy, Gloucester, on Sunday, March 4.
BREAKS
Olly Clark: 30.
Bradley Cowdroy: 22.
Mike Trigg: 22.
BRONZE RESULTS
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP A: 1st, Jasmine Bolsover (Woking SC); 2nd, Karl Eggar (Stoke SC, Gosport); 3rd, Ashley Smith (Copnor SC, Portsmouth); joint 4th, Luke Day (Chandler’s Ford SC), Arnie Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Rio Smith (Copnor SC, Portsmouth); 7th, Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP B: 1st, Liam Day (Chandler’s Ford SC); 2nd, Spike Hull (Chandler’s Ford SC); 3rd, Keiran Murray (Chandler’s Ford SC); 4th, Matthew Boudier (Stoke SC, Gosport); 5th, Bradley Redmond (Chandler’s Ford SC); 6th, Corey Tallentire (Player’s, Westbury); 7th, Callum McDonald (Salisbury SC).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP C: 1st, Stewart Ball (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 2nd, Bradley Cowdroy (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 3rd, Olly Clark (Chandler’s Ford SC); 4th, Matthew Bellinger (Jesters, Swindon); joint 5th, Bradley Lane (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Mitchell Snook (Chandler’s Ford SC); 7th, Jamie Wilson (Copnor SC, Portsmouth).
ROUND-ROBIN GROUP D: 1st, Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC); 2nd, Mike Trigg (Chandler’s Ford SC); 3rd, Thomas Holton (Woking SC); joint 4th, Joseph Richardson (Crucible, Newbury), Daniel Compton (Copnor SC, Portsmouth); 6th, Kaine Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth); 7th, Bradley Wrench (Copnor SC, Portsmouth).
QUARTER-FINALS (8 points): Trigg beat Bolsover 1-0, Cowdroy beat Liam Day 1-0, Ball beat Hull 1-0, Eggar beat Austen Petty 1-0.
SEMI-FINALS (12 points): Cowdroy beat Trigg 1-0, Ball beat Eggar 1-0.
FINAL (25/18 points): Ball beat Cowdroy 1-0.
Petty cleans up in the Plate
IT MAY take a while for the beaming smile to be wiped off Kaine Petty’s face.
The 13-year-old from the Greenbaize Snooker Club, Bournemouth, picked up his first Cuestars silverware. And it was a winner’s trophy.
Petty defeated Cuestars debutant Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC) on the black in the final of the Plate, a competition for those not qualifying for the main knockouts.
He had also seen off Sykes’ clubmate Olly Clark on the black in the semi-finals after fluking the pink, which denied Clark his first Cuestars trophy.
PLATE RESULTS (ONE-FRAME MATCHES)
LAST-16: Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Joshua Brooker (Liberal Club High Wycombe), Matthew Boudier (Stoke SC, Gosport) beat Luke Day (Chandler’s Ford SC), Bradley Lane (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Bradley Redmond (Chandler’s Ford SC), Ashley Smith (Copnor SC, Portsmouth) beat Anthony Church (Greenbaize, Bournemouth), Liam Burnet (The Academy, Eastleigh) beat Daniel Compton (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Olly Clark (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Bradley Wrench (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Keiran Murray (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Arnie Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth).
QUARTER-FINALS: Sykes beat Boudier, Lane beat Smith, Clark beat Burnet, Kaine Petty (Greenbaize, Bournemouth) beat Murray.
SEMI-FINALS: Sykes beat Lane, Kaine Petty beat Clark.
FINAL: Kaine Petty beat Sykes.
Tim Dunkley (World Snooker coach)